01/06/2014 North West Tonight
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stories on the BBC News Channel. That's it for us. Stay | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
A woman from Stockport jailed for 20 years in Iran after criticising | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
the regime on Facebook is trying to appeal against her sentence. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Roya Nobakht was arrested in Iran when she flew there to visit | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Roya's friends and family from day one said she was not a spy. | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
She is not a political activist. She is not a threat. She is a | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
housewife and a student. She is just normal. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
She's been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Iran. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
She wrote negative comments on Facebook. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Harmless by our standards, not by Iran's. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Most people would think it is terrible that someone could end up | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
in prison for 20 years for making rude comments against the | :01:09. | :01:09. | |
government. She then took an internal flight | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
to Shiraz to see family. When she landed, she was arrested | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
and held in this prison. The British embassy there was | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
attacked in 2011, Diplomatic relations between Britain | :01:22. | :01:42. | |
and Iran are very poor. We are having to go through third parties | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
which have representation in Iran. The foreign office is making strong | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
representation behind`the`scenes. Roya's family today told us they | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
will be appealing the sentence. A Foreign Office spokesman told us | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
"We are aware that a British national has received | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
a custodial sentence in Iran. We are seeking to establish the full | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
facts and are following up the case A 19`year`old man has been killed | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
in an alleged hit`and`run incident The pedestrian was struck | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
by a car on Northern Perimeter Road A 23`year`old driver later gave | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
himself up at a police station. He's now being questioned | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
on suspicion of causing death An eight`week`old baby boy is being | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
treated for serious head injuries at the Royal Preston Hospital | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
after an incident at a house Police have arrested a 19`year`old | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
man and a 20`year`old woman, who have been questioned on suspicion | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
of wounding and released on bail. The baby is in a serious but stable | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
condition and his injuries are not A lawyer has described the arrest | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
of a 15 `year`old girl at an anti`fracking protest | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
as "aggressive and abhorrent" after Saffron Hughes | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
from Warrington had been accused of obstructing a police officer | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
near the IGas site at Barton Moss. The Crown Prosecution Service | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
has now withdrawn the charge. We will look at the weather. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
the demonstration as part all of your regional news. Enjoy | :03:03. | :04:55. | |
your evening. Goodbye. Hope you had a nice weekend, it was | :04:56. | :05:11. | |
a warm and sunny one across central and eastern areas. A different story | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
out west with signs of change. It will be a different week this week | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
with some rain around. Some sunshine too. For a time, it | :05:22. | :05:23. |
